UN Official: The Entire Population of North Gaza May Die - The Monday AM Quickie 10/28/24
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THE BIG NEWS
UN Official: The Entire Population of North Gaza May Die
As Israel continues to decimate north Gaza while blocking aid shipments, journalists and human rights workers are warning that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians could die. "The entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying," said Joyce Msuya, the UN Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Msuya's statement goes on to paint a horrific picture of what's happening in north Gaza:
"Hospitals have been hit and health workers have been detained. Shelters have been emptied and burned down. First responders have been prevented from rescuing people from under the rubble. Families have been separated and men and boys are being taken away by the truckload."
Israeli forces have spent the last week separating men and boys from their families while sending women and children on forced marches to the south. It's not clear what is happening to some of the people who have been detained, especially health care workers from local hospitals. Israel has continued to besiege and attack hospitals and health clinics in Gaza and Lebanon. The World Health Organization denounced the attacks as war crimes: "The whole health system in Gaza has been under attack for over a year. WHO cannot stress loudly enough that hospitals must be shielded from conflict at all times. Any attack of healthcare facilities is a violation of international humanitarian law.”
As Gaza's healthcare system crumbled, so did its economy. According to Axios, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and colleagues from seven foreign governments wrote to Netanyahu "warning that his far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich might be about to cause the collapse of the Palestinian economy." Israel has killed at least 43,000 Palestinians and razed much of Gaza, leaving 80 percent of Gazans unemployed. Now, Netanyahu's fascist finance minister could cripple the Palestinian banking system by banning it from working with Israeli banks. Yellen et al explained that such a situation would damage Israel's economy, plunge the West Bank deeper into poverty, and limit the flow of donor funds.
Given Israel's actions over the last year, precipitating such a collapse seems to be exactly the point. Israel is widely believed to be implementing a version of the "Generals' Plan" – a blueprint for emptying north Gaza put together by retired Israeli generals. The plan calls for evicting and starving the population – exactly what is happening right now. These are war crimes, as are the ongoing forced displacements, the summary executions, and so much else.
Israeli settlers, Likud officials, and extremist religious activists have already begun making plans to settle north Gaza once it's emptied of its indigenous Palestinian population. "We came here with one clear purpose: to settle the entire Gaza Strip," settler leader Daniella Weiss said this week. Who is going to stop them?
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The canceled endorsements provoked resignations at both the Times and the Post, where columnists Michele Norris and Robert Kagan resigned. Kagan, a leading neoconservative whose politics I generally find detestable, seemed to have the billionaires figured out: "This is what we have to look forward to. All Trump has to do is threaten the corporate chiefs who run these organizations with real financial loss, and they will bend the knee."
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"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday told an audience that the Israeli attack 'should not be exaggerated nor downplayed,'" according to the AP. Iran's foreign minister reaffirmed Iran's right to self defense and its "responsibilities for regional peace and stability."
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- Elon Musk Was An Illegal Immigrant Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States in the mid-90s when he founded a startup called Zip2. Apparently his legal status was such an issue that colleagues and investors demanded he remedy the situation or risk tanking his company. Musk's brother Kimbal has previously said that he and his brother were in the US illegally. via WaPo.
- Beyonce Leads Starry Kamala Harris Rally Beyonce and Willie Nelson were two of the featured attractions at a weekend rally in Houston for Kamala Harris. "It’s time for America to sing a new song," said Beyonce, as she argued on behalf of reproductive rights and opportunities for women. "We are prepared to fight for [freedom]," said Harris. via CNBC.
- Donald Trump Wants To Be Bought With accumulating campaign and legal bills, Trump is hard up for cash and has told billionaires and representatives of major American industries that he's open for business. Crypto, vaping, AI, oil and gas, big tobacco, moguls like Elon Musk and Jeff Yass – Trump has promised them all whatever they want, as long as they bring the cash. via NYT.
SOME NUMBER
5
That's how many consecutive years that Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire biotech mogul and LA Times owner/censor, went without paying a cent of federal income tax. As ProPublica found, "the U.S. tax system has made it easy for the ultrawealthy to harvest business deductions without limit."
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"Look, Musk is a very smart, aggressive guy. He is the wealthiest person in the world, and what really interests me is – if, God forbid, Trump would win – whether it would be Elon Musk running the government and Trump working for him, or the other way around."
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